An ex-colleague of mine ( Violet Le - now the Marketing Director at Imageware) asked me about the drivers for Analytics in Telcos. I'll admit that it's a subject that I haven't really given a lot of thought to - all the projects that I've...

I wouldn't normally just post a link to someone else's work here, but in this case Frank Wong - a colleague of mine at my new company ( DGit Systems ) has done some terrific work in helping to eliminate the miss-match between the data model used...

Across many industries, including the Telecommunications sector, there seems to be a strong movement towards a MicroServices Architecture and (somewhat) away from Service Oriented Architecture. I've seen this move in a CSP here in Australia. The...

Think about it - orchestration is everywhere in a Telco - the Order to Cash process, The Ticket to Resolution process, the service and resource fulfilment process and even the NFV MANO processes. Orchestration is everywhere... There is a...

A link to this blog entry popped up in my LinkedIn feed today which in turn linked to a Developerworks article - Combine business process management and blockchain which steps you though a use case and allows you to build...

Happy New Year! For the first post of the new year I wanted to turn everyone's attention to Rational's premier event Innovate 2013. We are looking for some great submissions in the area of telecommunications
Innovate 2013 : The IBM Technical Summit,...

If you like me are hearing ' Blockchain this, blockchain that ', it almost seems like blockchain will solve world peace, global hunger and feed your pets for you! We're obviously at the 'peak of inflated expectations' of the...

In my last posting, back in March, I was talking about Agility Everywhere and how we needed agility across the complete lifecycle. And all that was before IBM announced it was acquiring UrbanCode . Since then, it's been busy in the world of DevOps ....

Greetings, The folks from IBM Rational focused on the telecom market are launching this new blog and we invite you to join us. We are covering the ecosystem, from Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) and even the...

Communications service providers (CSPs) have a history of adopting agile methods in their development of software-intensive products. However, the adoption of these methods, especially when continuous integration is involved, are impeded with old approaches to...

For anyone who hasn’t seen it a few days ago IBM released a
press release about a new technology advance that allows light speed connection
between chips in a server farm. This is a large step forward in the technology
of moving data inside data farms. Here...

I found out today that IBM has been nominated for three of the four categories for this year's TeleManagement Forum's awards. IBM is the only company to have three nominations. (Click on the image to see all of the nominees for the TM Forum awards). It makes...

" Apigee , the API management company that was most recently spotted powering that new “print to Walgreens” feature in half a dozen or so mobile applications, is now acquiring the technology assets of WAC, aka the Wholesale Applications Community .
WAC,...

Mobile enterprise applications, are typically accessing information on the back end from legacy systems that the business has spent 15 to 20 years integrating together. Many times these systems are being updated in parallel with the development of enterprise...

Orange in France are using WebSphere sMash to provide an easy development environment using PHP and Groovy to build Telco enabled applications that consume Orange Application Programming Interface (API) which are exposed through pre-built widgets. The custom...

I get regular emailed updates from one of the newspapers here in Australia (The Sydney Morning Herald in this case) - A few months ago, there was an interesting article about a IT company in South Africa who found it was much faster to transfer data by carrier...

At this morning's keynote session with Beth Smith (IBM) and Shanker Ramamurthy (IBM) one of my customers - Globe Telecom from the Philippines was mentioned - unfortunately they could not be here to see if for themselves, so I thought I would post the photos...

Buying groceries with micro payments, 29.7 million cell phones and governments investing in smarter cities… no this isn't China or Brazil… this is Nairobi Kenya…. Africa. On May 8, IBM will open the third IBM Innovation Center in...

Amazing
technology happens when it touches the
'underprivileged'! Here's to Spoken Web Imagine being 'spoken-to' from WWW
in voice? Its almost like a sci-fi movie being played where technology is
'cool'. and it IS ! IBM's Spoken
Web as innovation is...

I have just seen Amy Wohl of Amy D Wohl Opinions present on Cloud computing, she was going through the various cloud models and spoke about Community Clouds. What she means by that is multiple community focused clouds as part of a larger (private) cloud. An...

I am in Dublin at the moment for TeleManagement World 2011 which has changed locations from Nice, France last year. it looks to be a very interesting conference. I've already done two days of training and now, we're beginning the sessions. the keynote...

Yesterday, IBM launched the latest iteration of the Service Provider Delivery Environment (SPDE), a software framework for Telecom that has been around since 2000. Over the years, it has evolved with change sin market requirements and architecture maturity. ...

Wow! In just five months, Bharti Airtel's App store has had over 13 Million downloads. What a terrific example of a Telco App Store in action and (presumably) making money for the Telco. This article came across my screen this afternoon and given my...

A colleague of mine at IBM, Anthony Behan has just had an article published in BillingOSS magazine. I'll admit that I have never heard of the magazine before, but this particular issue has quite a few articles about Cloud computing in a Telco environment. I...